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by the peace concluded at Conftance in the following year, 

 was confirmed to them. The crintons to which t"^' t*^""!-!- 

 toriil fovereiRntv of this countrv belongs, arc the eight old 

 cantons of Zurich. Bern, Lucerne, Schwcit/., U.uierwaldcn, 

 Zug, and Claris ; but it was not till the peace of Arau.that 

 the fecond ivas admitted by the others as a co-fovereign. 

 Thefe eiglit every two years alternately appoint a landvogt 

 over it, who refides at Fraueiifeld ; and fince the year 1449, 

 the cantons of Friburg and Soleure have alfo obtained a feat 

 in its criminal court. 



THURGOLAND, a townfhip of Yorklhire, in the 

 Well Riding ; 4 miles S.W. of Barnefley. 



THURIA, in ^«f/Vn/ Gfograph, a town of MefTcnia, 

 on the river Aris, S.W. of Alagonia. It had a temple 

 dedicated to the goddefs Ailarte, a Syrian divinity, fup- 

 pofed to be the Sime with Venus. — Alfo, an idaiid on the 

 jEgean fea, near Naxos, according to Plutarch. 



THURIBULUM, among the Romans, a cenfer, or 

 vi.(Tel, in which inccnfc was burnt at facrificcs. 



THURIFICATI, in Church Hijlory, a defignation 

 given to thofe who, to avoid the perfccution of the Roman 

 emperors, offered frankincenfe to the heathen gods. 



THURII MoXTEs, in Ancient Geography, mountains of 

 Italy, in Magna Grascia. 



THURINGII, Tiu'RiNGiAN's, a people of Germany, 

 fuppofed by fome authors to have been a part of the 

 Vandals. They have been fcarcely known in hillory fince 

 the fall of the Roman empire. Towards the end of the fifth 

 or commencement of the fixth century, Thuringia had a king, 

 or at leaft a warlike chief. 



THURINGIA, in Geography, a circle of Saxony, 

 which forms the N. part of the landgravate of that name. 

 The country is well watered, yields good pafturage, and 

 abundance of corn, particularly wheat, which is excellent, as 

 alfo fine timber-wood, fafflower, anife, fennel, and wine ; and 

 has alfo a confiderablc breed of horfes, horned cattle, and 

 ftieep. Of thefe natural produftions of the country, a great 

 part is exported. Thuringia contains in it 60 towns, 674 

 villages, and 300 noble cftates. The modern Thuringia, 

 which lies nearly between the Saale and the Werra, is but a 

 part of the ancient Thuringia, a country formerly comprized 

 under that name, extending itfelf much farther every way. 

 In the fixth century, the Franks and Saxons fubjefted the 

 Thuringians to their dominions, whofe country from that 

 time forwards became divided into the North and South. 

 North Thuringia, tovrards the N., extends itfelf beyond 

 Harzwaldc, quite to the river Elbe, and belonged to the 

 Saxons. It was united with the duchy of Saxony, loft its 

 name, and was at L-ngth annexed to Eaftphalia, or to the 

 eaftern part of the county of Saxony. South Thuringia 

 belonged to the Franks, and comprized in it the modern 

 Thuringia, together with a large (hare of the modern 

 Franconia, Heffe, &c. Till the eleventh century, it ftood 

 under the emperors and kings, and befides the counts, we 

 find alfo fome dukes mentioned, to whom the German kino-s 

 entrufted the government of this country. Ever fince the 

 thirteenth century, the marggraves of Meiffen, who after- 

 wards became cledors of Saxony, have been in poffeflion of 

 the landgravate of Thuringia, which was at one time divided 

 among feparate lines, but returned again by the extinftion 

 of the latter to that of Meiffen. It has been ceded to 

 Prullia by the king of Saxony. 



THURIS, in Ancient Geography, a town fituated in the 

 mtenor of Arabia Felix. Ptol. 



PHURIUM, a town which fucceeded the ancient 

 Sybans ; which fee. 



THURLES, in Geography, a poft-town of the county 



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of Tipperary, Ireland, fituate on the river Suire, which 

 divides it nearly into two equal parts. There was formerly 

 a callle belonging to the knights of St. John of Jerufalem, 

 and there are ilill fome ruins of a monadery. Thurles is 

 70 miles S.W. from Dublin. 



THURLMERE, a lake of England, in the county of 

 Cumberland, from whence a river runs to the Derwent ; 3 

 miles S.E. of Kefwick. 



THURLOE, John, in Biography, fecretary of ftate to 

 the Proteftorate, was the fon of Thomas Thurloe, reClor of 

 Abbot's Roding, in Efiex, where he was born in 1616. He 

 was brought up to the law, and in 1644-5, ^1 '^^ interell 

 of Oliver St. John, was appointed one of the fecretaries to 

 the parliamentary commifiioners at the treaty of Uxbridge. 

 Advancing through other offices, he went as fecretary to 

 lord chief juftice St. John, and Mr. Strickland, in their 

 embaffy to the States-General. In 1652 he rofe to the 

 office of fecretary to the council of ftate ; and when Crom- 

 well, in 1653, affumed the proteftorate, he was nominated 

 his fecretary, on whom he repofed peculiar confidence. In 

 1655 ^'^ "'^^ entrufted with the management of the poft- 

 office ; and in 1656 he reprefented the ifle of Ely in parlia- 

 ment. On the death of Cromwell he figned the order for 

 proclaiming Richard, and in the following parliament was 

 returned member for the univerfity of Cambridge. He re- 

 tained his office of fecretary under Richard, and alfo under 

 the parliament that depofed him. On the reiloration, he - 

 was accufed of high treafon and examined, but foon fet at 

 liberty. He then retired to his feat in Oxfordfhire, and 

 vifited London, at his chambers in Lincoln's Inn, in term- 

 time. Charles II. often invited him to take a part in his 

 adminiftration : but he declined it, alleging that perhaps he 

 fhould not be able to ferve the king, as he had done the pro- 

 tedlor, in conneftion with men of different charafters and 

 principles ; the protedtor, as he told his majeily, was ufed 

 " to feek out men for places, and not places for men." 

 The abilities of Thurloe for public life were diftinguifhed, 

 and his charafter in private life no lefs amiable. He died in 

 Lincoln's Inn, where he was mafter of the bench, in 1667-8, 

 and was interred in the chapel. His ftate papers formed 

 a valuable hiftorical colleftion, and were pubhfhed by 

 Dr. Birch, in 7 vols. fol. 1742. Biog. Brit. Gen. Biog. 

 THURLOWjin Geography, a townftiip of Upper Canada. 

 Thurlow'j IJland, a narrow ifland in the Pacific ocean, 

 near the coail of North America, about 24 miles in length 

 from E. to W. N. lat. 50° 24'. E. long. 233° 35'. 



THURMAN, a poft-towniliip of the United States, in 

 the ftate of New York, and county of Waftiington, erefted 

 in 1792 from Queenft)ury, and then comprifing a great ex- 

 tent of territory, which has been fince fubdivided into other 

 towns. Thurman is bounded N. by Cheller and Jolinfburg, 

 E. by Caldwell and Bolton, S. by Saratoga county, and 

 W. by Montgomery county. The flrft fettlements com- 

 menced about 1786, and in 18 10 there were about 200 

 families, moftly Scots, and the reft from the eaftern ftates. 

 It has one Prefbyterian and one Methodilt meeting-houfe, 

 and a pretty competent number of common fchool-houfcs 

 and fchools. The whole townftiip is well watered, and 

 Crain's mountain in the W. part of it is rich in mineral 

 treafures. Much of this weftern part is ftill unfettled. 



THURN, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 5 miles S. of 

 Windifch Gratz. 



Tulr;} Am Hardt, a town of the duchy of Carniola ; 2 

 miles S. of Gurckfeld. 



THURNAU, a town of Germany, in the principality 

 of Culmbach ; 5 miles S.S.W. of Culrabach. N. lat. 50° 2 . 

 E. long. 1 1"- 26'. 



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